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Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David Thompson in a video released Jan. 5 called on the private sector to help clean up space junk. SpaceNews

An international team of astronomers spotted the largest filament of hydrogen in our galaxy, which could offer tantalizing clues about how stars are born. The post Astronomers Find the Biggest Structure in the Milky Way,...

It was another busy and productive day for the James Webb Space Telescope team. Today's objective, deploy the Secondary Mirror and make sure it's latched....

The nor'easter sent more than 14 inches of snow into the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.

The James Webb Space Telescope successfully extended its secondary mirror as it continues to sail seamlessly through its never-before-conducted deployment sequence on the way to its destination.

The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity's next Mars sortie will take place as early as Friday (Jan. 7). The little chopper will cruise over a ridge and onto a plateau.

Orion's Flame Nebula rings in the New Year in a blazing new photo from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

Mini-EUSO is a telescope launched on board the International Space Station in 2019 and currently located in the Russian section of the station....

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a telescope. The secondary mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope was successfully deployed in space today, an incredibly important milestone. “We are 600,000 miles from Earth and we hav...

An international team of astronomers has performed multi-epoch optical and near-infrared observations of a slow nova known as V2891 Cygni. Results of the study, published December 26 on the arXiv pre-print repository, de...

The sun is made up of 98.5% hydrogen and helium, two light chemical elements, while the remaining 1.5% consists of other, heavier elements such as carbon, oxygen, and iron. The abundance of heavier elements in a star is ...

Magnetic fields are the essential, but often "secret" ingredients of the interstellar medium and the process of making stars. The secrecy shrouding interstellar magnetic fields can be attributed to the lack of experiment...

Lockheed Martin, Amazon and Cisco have teamed up to integrate unique human-machine interface technologies into NASA's Orion spacecraft, providing an opportunity to learn how future astronauts could benefit from far-field...

Amazon's Alexa has a new feature: it can fly you to the moon. The virtual assistant is set to launch on NASA's Artemis 1 with Cisco's Webex as part of Callisto on Lockheed Martin's Orion spacecraft.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) want to engineer a new kind of hovering spacecraft that can operate without air.

The Biden-Harris administrated promised more science in federal policy and the budget. After a year, many of their actions have been limited to the pandemic and conservation rollbacks on Trump policies.

On December 25, 2021, astronomers and space exploration enthusiasts got the greatest Christmas present of all--after years of delays, cost overruns and additional testing, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched f...

The upcoming uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft will include a payload to see how a voice recognition technology widely available to consumers today could be used to assist astronauts on future missions. SpaceN...

Object 90377 Sedna--a distant trans-Neptunian object known best for its highly elliptical, 11,390-year long orbit--is currently on its way toward perihelion (its closest approach to the sun) in 2076. After that, Sedna wi...

China welcomed the New Year with a live stream from cameras outside the new Tianhe space station module showing the beauty of the Earth below.

Comet Leonard is slipping out of view, but not without putting on one last show.

Scientists have just created the world's lightest form of magnesium -- a never-before-seen isotope with just six neutrons in its atomic nuclei.